Expected Heat Cycle Time Buck Stove Model 80

[BKVP]

"Clear choice" is the 3 tons of NIELS I have for this winter....and something to take the bark off..

 

[Woody Stover]

....and something to take the bark off.

62.7%, that's enough bite to take the bark off. You'll just have to bite the bullet.

 

[BKVP]

There is a 3/4 empty lot behind my house. The owner has just let it go wild and over 25 years, hundreds of "Trees of Paradise" have spread everywhere. Some 3' across.

The land owner had all the trees dropped and posted "free firewood"

Truck after truck has pulled up over past few days jamming beds full.

I walked over the fence and said "you know that is real crappy fuel and it's green as grass." He told me he had a stove "you can burn anything in, an Ol' Buck 91"! I said...have at it! My old silver maple was finally better than something!

 

[mellow]

Amazing that an east coast stove made it that far. Must have removed the cat years ago if he is burning green wood.

 

[Woody Stover]

"you can burn anything in, an Ol' Buck 91"!

Uh, no, not really.

Must have removed the cat years ago

Well, maybe he can burn anything. He might get more heat and a longer burn with some old tires, though..

My old silver maple was finally better than something!

Heheh.

 

[Kevin Weis]

People around here view Gum as junk wood, I burned it for years, just gotta know when to split it. Good filler wood for Oak.

Sweet or Sour. The Sour does okay at least for me. But not that much around these parts. Even less of the Sweet, a coastal plain tree. Silver maple leaves too much ash for me. Kevin

 

[Zack R]

Start collecting now, you can never have too much wood. After you've been at it a few years you'll be able to forecast much better and will have a solid long term wood processing, storing, seasoning plan together.

 

[Woody Stover]

People around here view Gum as junk wood, I burned it for years, just gotta know when to split it. Good filler wood for Oak.

Sweet or Sour. The Sour does okay at least for me. But not that much around these parts. Even less of the Sweet, a coastal plain tree. Silver maple leaves too much ash for me.

We have Sweetgum and Blackgum (Black Tupelo, Sour gum) here. I never messed with it much after reading that it was hard to split, but the little Sweetgum I did seemed to split OK. I think it dries quickly, which is what the OP needs right now.
I've just grabbed Black Cherry, or some Red Maple if I run across it, for mid-BTU wood. And there's plenty of Pooplar, which I've mainly split to kindling size so far.